From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 24 10:08:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA02761 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:08:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA02733 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:08:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id EAA07796 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 04:22:17 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vRdXq-000QrGC; Sun, 24 Nov 96 13:20 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.3/8.6.12) id NAA00505; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:14:23 +0100 (MET) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199611241214.NAA00505@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: ATAPI Vs Scsi In-Reply-To: <199611231921.LAA27787@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Nov 23, 96 11:21:00 am" To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:14:23 +0100 (MET) Cc: chat@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Chat) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Amancio Hasty writes: >> From The Desk Of Joel Ray Holveck : >> >> Yes, I've seen other indications of this. It might mark a trend >> towards maturity in the market: even Micosloth users are gradually >> asking why this expensive "operating system" keeps crashing, and >> people with multimedia applications probably wonder why programs >> sometimes hang for half a second before continuing. The German trade >> magazines (not necessarily reliable) claim that there's a trend >> towards SCSI, too. > > My concern about IDE is that at least for a development is kind of nice > to be able to add drives as the need arises additionally, the ease of > configuration -- well sort of, we know about the scsi cables , terminators, > etc.. however if one can agree on the configuration for scsi busses > at least for your company then it is easy to add/remove drives. > For instance, lets assume that my development sources reside on a > separate disk at the end of the day I can take the external disk home > and keep working (assuming that one has a similar setup at home). Agreed. I'm doing that right now, in fact, copying a complete disk just by hanging it in the string. Just a pity you have to reboot to do so. Greg